usá

See also: Appendix:Variations of "usa"

Old Tupi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ut͡ʃa (“crab”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uˈsa/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: u‧sá

Noun

usá (female equivalent kunduru) (unpossessable)

1. fiddler crab (Uca sp.)
2. swamp ghost crab (Ucides cordatus)

Derived terms

• usagûasu
• usapeba
• usaúna

 

Related terms

• agûarusá

 

Descendants

• → Portuguese: uçá, usá
• → Translingual: Uca

Further reading

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “usá”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), 1 edition, São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 503, column 2
• Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) “Catálogo da fauna da costa brasileira no século XVI com os nomes tupis registrados pelos autores europeus”, in Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 291

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: u‧sá

Noun

usá m (plural usás)

1. Alternative form of uçá

Spanish

Verb

usá

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of usar